Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Fully Furnished Beauty In Chinatown, $2100 Today's Apartment Sadness listing suggests that the market might be getting a little worse for landlords/subletters looking to gouge the desperate and homeless. It's a six-month sublet in Chinatown that has appeared
SF News File Under Drought Upsides: California's Weed May Get Stronger Stressed marijuana plants being grown outdoors across Northern California, assuming their growers are not stealing massive amounts of water, are likely to produce more potent pot this year as we enter our fourth
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Mini-Doc Profiles Anthony Mangieri Of Una Pizza Napoletana And His Love Of Bikes Five years ago, Anthony Mangieri relocated his acclaimed, one-man pizza operation Una Pizza Napoletana from New York City to San Francisco, thereby blessing us with our first taste of pizza royalty. If you
SF News South Bay Woman Stuck With Two Airbnb Squatters Who Refuse To Leave A Watsonville woman who was renting her back master bedroom to a couple on Airbnb made the grave mistake of accepting rent in cash after the Airbnb transaction ended. Then it seems she
SF News Day Around The Bay: Banning Left Turns On Divis? Remember Jelly, the San Francisco startup founded by Biz Stone after he left Twitter? It's dead now. [Chron] In sad news, local glitter artist Rene Garcia died of natural causes at age 41,
SF News Study: Airbnb 'Commercial Hosts' Definitely Keeping Long-Term Rental Units Off the Market A lot gets said about Airbnb in relation to average moms and pops and everygal/guys who are renting rooms to tourists for a little extra cash, or renting their apartments while they're
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Goodbye, Paradise Lounge Demolition is underway at the corner of 11th and Folsom in the former Paradise Lounge space. It's been dormant for several years now, and almost became a new club and cabaret from Heklina
Arts & Entertainment Bay To Breakers Dos And Don'ts, In Photos It's time once again this Sunday for the Straight Pride Parade/heavily costumed footrace that is Bay to Breakers and yes, we know, LGBT people are well represented too. Year in and year
SF News Bayview Group Threatened With Arrest While Shooting Rap Video Now Suing SFPD Remember that apparent arrest of over a dozen guys in the Bayview that was recorded on video because they were actually in the middle of shooting a video at the time? Well, now
SF News Family Of Humpback Whales Vacationing In The Bay A trio of humpback whales has been spotted cavorting in San Francisco Bay this week in a fairly rare sighting. As Mary Jane Schramm of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary
SF News Have You Heard About The Startup Castle In Woodside? Because It's Ridiculous And Sexist A huge mansion in tony Woodside has been rebrand the Startup Castle, as of about a year ago, and it's offering "monk-like" lodging for startup bros in a bizarre, stately setting, straight out
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 11 Best Old Man Bars In SF A neighborhood really isn't complete without an old man bar. Sadly, in places all over town like the Mission and Hayes Valley, you'd be hard pressed to find anywhere that a wizened older
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink McDonald's At Haight And Stanyan In Big Trouble Over Drug Activity The city attorney is threatening to sue McDonald's over the constant and apparently unchecked drug activity that occurs on the premises and around the restaurant's location at Haight and Stanyan. Per a letter
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acquolina Opens In North Beach New Tuscan-inspired Italian spot Acquolina (which means "mouth-watering" in Italian) has just quietly swung open its doors in North Beach as SFist can exclusively report. The restaurant is an all-day cafe with a
SF News Rube Goldberg House Gets Landmark Status, Potentially Foiling Eviction We learned back in November of the case of four tenants occupying two rent-controlled units on the second floor of 198 Gough, which is also home to 20th Century Cafe and was, historically,
SF News Study: NY And SF Rents Are Dragging Down The US Economy A new study by two economists out of UC Berkeley and the University of Chicago suggests that overall national growth, as in the gross domestic product, is being strangled by the insanely high
SF News Day Around The Bay: A Little Bit More Rain On The Way LGBT groups are planning a big "real names" demonstration at Facebook HQ on June 1. [Daily Dot] And, in related news, a local woman whose legal name is Tru Love was booted from
SF News City To Help Subsidize 'Middle-Income' Rents In New Housing Bond If Mayor Lee's $250 million housing bond measure gets approved by voters in November, there will for the first time ever be public money going to below-market-rate rental housing geared specifically to residents
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Belcampo Is Hosting Meat Butchery Camps, Or 'Glamps', For Women And Gay Men This Summer Locally founded Belcampo Meat Co., which currently has butcher shop-restaurants in Russian Hill, Palo Alto, and Larkspur focusing on sustainable meats of all sorts, is doing something a little out of the ordinary
SF News Beloved Church Street Corner Store Owner Runs Into Tough Times Following Fire You may recall the big apartment fire at 15th and Church that heavily damaged the entire building at that corner back in February. The fire immediately shut down Church Street Market, the store
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Tried To Make It A Top 150 This Year, But The Chron Refused Every year for at least the past five Michael Bauer has lamented the cuts he has to make in order to keep his Top 100 Restaurants list down to 100. And, once again,
SF News One Buyer Bought Both Of Those Pricey South Park Condos For $8 Million Get ready to be sad again about how not-rich you are: A couple recently closed on those two extremely nice, newly built condos on South Park which were listed separately for $3 million
SF News They're Spending $4 Million To Figure Out How And Why The Bay Bridge Is So Effed The immediate price tag just to investigate the extent of the troubles with the seemingly cursed eastern span of the Bay Bridge will be $4 million, as the Chron reports. That's how much
Arts & Entertainment Aeolian Ride Brings 'Inflatable' Cyclists Back To The Bay Area This Week The first and only time the Aeolian Ride came to San Francisco was way back in 2004 when SFist was but a fledgling operation, and when the performance-art-meets-bikeride event was first started. In
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Tartine, Sons & Daughters Pruned From Chron Top 100; Lazy Bear, Liholiho and (Finally) Atelier Crenn Added For the second year in a row, the Chronicle is trying the thing where they entice people to pay for online subscriptions by publishing the updated Top 100 a week early on the
